"first-class umpire until 1986. Sam Cook died in his hometown of Tetbury in September 1996, at the age of 75. Sam Cook (Gloucestershire cricketer) Cecil ""Sam"" Cook (23 August 1921 – 4 September 1996) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and in one Test match for England. Born in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, Cook was a small and stocky slow left-arm spinner, who emerged unexpectedly after World War II when Gloucestershire had lost Tom Goddard’s former partner Reg Sinfield. Wally Hammond saw him in the nets during the spring, and took Cook on immediately with great expectations that were"
"in mind. Brown was included in a 2005 list of Hampshire cult figures. George Brown (cricketer, born 1887) George Brown (6 October 1887 at Cowley, Oxford, England – 3 December 1964 at Winchester, Hampshire, England) was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1921 to 1923. George Brown was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, the son of Edwin Brown and Sarah Ann (née Casey). As his figures indicate, he was a very versatile cricketer, being useful as batsman, bowler and wicketkeeper. He played first-class cricket for Hampshire between 1908 and 1933. Though he was never their regular keeper, it"
"George Brown (cricketer, born 1887) George Brown (6 October 1887 at Cowley, Oxford, England – 3 December 1964 at Winchester, Hampshire, England) was an English cricketer who played in 7 Tests from 1921 to 1923. George Brown was born in Cowley, Oxfordshire, the son of Edwin Brown and Sarah Ann (née Casey). As his figures indicate, he was a very versatile cricketer, being useful as batsman, bowler and wicketkeeper. He played first-class cricket for Hampshire between 1908 and 1933. Though he was never their regular keeper, it was in that role that he played for England, with stiffening the batting"
"Tom Graveney Thomas William Graveney OBE (16 June 1927 – 3 November 2015) was an English first-class cricketer, representing his country in 79 Test matches and scoring over 4,800 runs. In a career lasting from 1948 to 1972, he became the 15th player to score one hundred first-class centuries; he was the first batsman beginning his career after the Second World War to reach this milestone. He played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and helped Worcestershire win the county championship for the first time in their history. His achievements for England after being recalled in 1966 have been described as ""the"
"Geoff Cook Geoff Cook (born Geoffrey Cook, 9 October 1951 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer, who played in seven Tests and six ODIs from 1981 to 1983. Cricket writer, Colin Bateman, stated ""A player held in great respect by his fellow professionals, Cook got his big chance when the first rebel tour went to South Africa in 1982, but he was unable to convert his consistent county form into Test success"". In county cricket he played for Northamptonshire where, along with Robin Boyd-Moss, he achieved a second wicket partnership of 344, which remains a Northamptonshire record. Cook"
"Allen even found himself left out of his own benefit match"". In later years, Allen was a member of the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club committee, and was elected club president in 2011. David Allen (cricketer) David Arthur Allen (29 October 1935 – 24 May 2014) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1953 and 1972. He also played 39 Test matches for England. Allen was first selected for England in 1959 and in 1960 was selected as the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year. Allen toured all the then-current Test-playing nations. He was a"
"a position as player-coach for Queensland, returning after an unsuccessful period in Australia in 1972. In all, he played 79 Test matches for England between 1951 and 1969, scoring 4,882 runs at an average of 44.38 with a high score of 258 and 11 centuries. He scored 47,793 first-class runs (a figure bettered by only eight players), making 122 centuries. He is the only player to have scored more than 10,000 runs for two counties. He was described by ""The Daily Telegraph"" as ""the greatest, as well as the most elegant and graceful, professional batsman to emerge in Britain in"
"died at Crewe, Cheshire on 29 May 1961. George Rogerson George Henry Rogerson (13 March 1896 – 29 May 1961) was an English cricketer. Born at Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, he made twelve appearances in first-class cricket. Having played for the Lancashire Second XI since 1921, Rogerson made his first-class cricket debut for Lancashire in 1923 against Oxford University at Oxford. He made eleven further appearances in first-class cricket in 1922, playing his final match for Lancashire in the County Championship against Hampshire. He scored a total of 340 runs in his twelve matches, with a high score of 47 not"
"Jim Andrew Frederick James Andrew (29 May 1937 – 14 July 1996) was an English cricketer who played for Gloucestershire. He made his first-class debut against Middlesex, and also played two List A matches. A fast-medium bowler, he made his first-class debut against Middlesex in 1959. He also played two List A matches in the Gillette Cup in 1966. Andrew was always regarded as a bowler; in both forms of the game, he failed to score more than six runs in an innings. However, he did score 29 against Worcestershire Second XI for Gloucestershire Second XI, for whom he took"
"1899. Henry Clowes Henry Clowes (1 July 1863 – 6 April 1899) was an English cricketer. Clowes was a right-handed batsman who occasionally fielded as a wicket-keeper. He was born at Cheadle, Cheshire, and educated at Cheltenham College. Clowes made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Sussex in 1884. He made three further first-class appearances for the county in that season, the last of which came against Sussex. In his four first-class appearances for Gloucestershire, Clowes scored a total of 82 runs at an average of 10.25, with a high score of 22. He died at Bloomsbury, London on 6"
"Grahame Parker Grahame Wilshaw Parker OBE (11 February 1912 – 11 November 1995) was an English sportsman who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and represented the England national rugby union team. Parker, who was educated at The Crypt School, opened the batting for Gloucestershire regularly throughout the 1930s and was also a useful swing bowler. While at Selwyn College, Cambridge, early in the decade, he earned blues in both cricket and rugby. He performed well for their cricket team in 1934 with a century against Glamorgan to go with a pair of 90s that year, one of those when he"
"an end-of-season friendly game between Glamorgan and Nottinghamshire which was also Bowles' final match as an umpire. Bowles died at the age of 81 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. Jack Bowles John Jesse Bowles (3 April 1890 – 27 November 1971), known as Jack, was an English cricketer who played 80 first-class games in two spells: he was with Gloucestershire from 1911 to 1920, though he played only 18 times for the county in those years. He made the bulk of his appearances, 62, for Worcestershire between 1926 and 1928. Born in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, Bowles made his first-class debut for that"
"Martin Young (cricketer) Douglas Martin Young (15 April 1924 – 18 June 1993) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire. He was a right-handed opening batsman. Young played for Worcestershire from 1946 to 1948, then for Gloucestershire from 1949 to 1964. He scored 23,400 runs in his career with Gloucestershire, including 40 hundreds. His most prolific year came in 1959 when he managed 2090 runs. It was the second time that he had passed 2000 runs in a season, having also done so in 1955. In 1962 he put on 395 with Ronald Nicholls against Oxford"
"Gubby Allen Sir George Oswald Browning ""Gubby"" Allen CBE (31 July 1902 – 29 November 1989) was a cricketer who captained England in eleven Test matches. In first-class matches, he played for Middlesex and Cambridge University. A fast bowler and hard-hitting lower-order batsman, Allen later became an influential cricket administrator who held key positions in the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which effectively ruled English cricket at the time; he also served as chairman of the England selectors. Allen was born in Australia and grew up in England from the age of six. After playing cricket for Eton College, he went"
"Fred Grace George Frederick Grace (13 December 1850 – 22 September 1880) was an English first-class cricketer active from 1866 to 1880 who played for Gloucestershire and the United South of England Eleven (USEE). He played in one retrospectively recognised Test match for England. He was born in Downend, near Bristol and died in Basingstoke, Hampshire. A right-handed batsman who bowled right arm fast roundarm, he appeared in 195 matches that are generally rated first-class for statistical purposes. In these matches, Grace scored 6,906 runs with a highest score of 189*. An outstanding fielder and occasional wicket-keeper, he held 170"
"4 and took three wickets with a best analysis of three for 48. Henry Grace (cricketer) Henry Grace (31 January 1833 – 13 November 1895) was an English cricketer active in 1871 who played for Gloucestershire. A member of the Grace family and an elder brother of E. M., W. G. and Fred, he was born in Downend, near Bristol, and died in Honiton. He appeared in three first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm medium pace with a roundarm action. He did not pursue a cricket career like his brothers as he entered the medical profession"
"with the likes of Billy Gunn, Maurice Read and Arthur Shrewsbury. As a result, Gloucestershire fell away in county competition and could no longer match Nottinghamshire, Surrey and Lancashire who had the strongest sides in the 1880s. Test cricket began in 1877 when Grace was already 28 and he made his debut in 1880, scoring England's first-ever Test century against Australia. He played for England in 22 Tests through the 1880s and 1890s, all of them against Australia, and was an automatic selection for England at home, but his only Test-playing tour of Australia was that of 1891–92. Grace made"
"Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke (16 August 1860 – 10 October 1938), generally known as Lord Hawke, was an English amateur cricketer active from 1881 to 1911 who played for Yorkshire and England. He was born in Willingham by Stow, near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, and died in Edinburgh. He appeared in 633 first-class matches, including five Test matches, as a righthanded batsman, scoring 16,749 runs with a highest score of 166 and held 209 catches. He scored 13 centuries and 69 half-centuries. Since an 1870 inheritance of his father, Hawke was styled ; he inherited"
"Cyril Smart Cyril Cecil Smart (23 July 1898 – 21 May 1975) was an English cricketer who played for Glamorgan and Warwickshire County Cricket Clubs between 1920 and 1946, featuring in 236 first-class cricket matches as a right-handed batsman and occasional leg-break spin bowler. Smart, whose brother Jack was also a first-class cricketer and a Test match umpire, was considered by ""Wisden"" to be one of the ""most explosive county batsmen"" during the 1930s, and is well known for his then-world record hitting of thirty-two runs from a single over against Hampshire. He ended his career with the record number"
"John Guthrie (cricketer) John Guthrie (born 10 September 1795 in Newark, Nottinghamshire; died 6 July 1865 in Clifton, Bristol) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge University. He is recorded as a batsman in two matches in 1819, totalling 32 runs with a highest score of 22. Guthrie was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating from Cambridge he became a Church of England priest and after other posts he was vicar of Calne, Wiltshire, from 1835 until his death. In Calne he and his wife founded a local school, the Guthrie School. He was appointed"
"Edward Brice (cricketer) Edward Archibald Bruce, known until August 1875 as Edward Archibald Brice (1 September 1849 – 14 November 1918) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in six matches for Gloucestershire as a right-arm fast bowler. He took 20 wickets at a bowling average of 13.20, with two five-wicket hauls, both in 1872. In non-first-class cricket he made 30 appearances for Cheltenham College, Birkenhead Park and Somerset. He also served in the armed forces, stationed in Winchester. In August 1875 he changed his surname from Brice to Bruce, and scorecards after that date record his new surname."
"Oxford and later a captain of Surrey; however, Key stated that Page merely bowled it as a distraction and never used it in a first-class match. Page's son Dallas was captain of Gloucestershire in 1935 and 1936. Herbert Page Herbert Vivian Page (30 October 1862 – 1 August 1927) was a first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University and Gloucestershire. An all-rounder, Page scored 4,005 runs and took 212 wickets in first-class cricket. As an occasional wicket-keeper, he also made 14 stumpings. He played for Cheltenham College in 1881 and 1882 with some success, and when he went to Wadham"
"Gladstone Small Gladstone Cleophas Small (born 18 October 1961 in St. George, Barbados) is an English former cricketer, who played in seventeen Tests and fifty three ODIs for England. The cricket writer Colin Bateman commented, ""Gladstone Small overcame a hunched physique to become a remarkably effective fast-medium bowler and one of the most popular characters on the county circuit"". Small was born in Barbados, and moved to England shortly after his fourteenth birthday, usually the point after which a change of nationality is not permitted. However, he applied for eligibility to play cricket for England, and the MCC accepted his"
"a canon of Bristol Cathedral in 1858 and was the first chairman of council of Clifton College, founded in 1862. John Guthrie (cricketer) John Guthrie (born 10 September 1795 in Newark, Nottinghamshire; died 6 July 1865 in Clifton, Bristol) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Cambridge University. He is recorded as a batsman in two matches in 1819, totalling 32 runs with a highest score of 22. Guthrie was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating from Cambridge he became a Church of England priest and after other posts he was vicar of Calne, Wiltshire, from"
"Graeme Hick Graeme Ashley Hick MBE (born 23 May 1966) is a former English cricketer who played 65 Test matches and 120 One Day Internationals for England. He was born in Rhodesia, and as a young man played international cricket for Zimbabwe. He played English county cricket for Worcestershire for his entire English domestic career, a period of well over twenty years, and in 2008 surpassed Graham Gooch's record for the most matches in all forms of the game combined. He scored more than 40,000 first-class runs, mostly from number three in the order, and he is one of only"
"Ken Graveney John Kenneth Richard ""Ken"" Graveney (16 December 1924 – 25 October 2015) was an English first-class cricketer from Hexham, Northumberland, who played for and captained Gloucestershire. Graveney was a lower order left-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler of outswingers. He played in a few matches for Gloucestershire in both 1947 and 1948, and then regularly in 1949, when he took 59 wickets, including all ten wickets in an innings, for 66 runs, against Derbyshire at Chesterfield, the second-best innings analysis in the county's history. He played less in 1950 and 1951, however, because of fitness problems with"
"David Allen (cricketer) David Arthur Allen (29 October 1935 – 24 May 2014) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1953 and 1972. He also played 39 Test matches for England. Allen was first selected for England in 1959 and in 1960 was selected as the Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year. Allen toured all the then-current Test-playing nations. He was a decent bat, his Test average higher than the all-rounders Fred Titmus and Ray Illingworth, and in the 1963 Lord's Test against the West Indies, he notably played out the final two balls"
"fifty-five runs in the second as Gloucestershire took a twenty-four run victory. He did not bowl in his second match, against Yorkshire on 26 May. Harry Jefferies Harry Jefferies (1891 - ????) was an English cricketer notable for his two first-class cricket appearances for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 1919. A bowler of unknown style and handedness, Jefferies took five wickets - all of them during just one of his two games - at a bowling average of 18.60 runs per wicket. He batted four times without scoring a run. Born in Bristol, Jefferies made his debut in the County"
"George Rogerson George Henry Rogerson (13 March 1896 – 29 May 1961) was an English cricketer. Born at Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, he made twelve appearances in first-class cricket. Having played for the Lancashire Second XI since 1921, Rogerson made his first-class cricket debut for Lancashire in 1923 against Oxford University at Oxford. He made eleven further appearances in first-class cricket in 1922, playing his final match for Lancashire in the County Championship against Hampshire. He scored a total of 340 runs in his twelve matches, with a high score of 47 not out and a batting average of 17.89. He"
"Colin Cowdrey Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, (24 December 19324 December 2000) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Oxford University (1952–1954), Kent County Cricket Club (1950–1976) and England (1954–1975). Universally known as Colin Cowdrey, he ""delighted crowds throughout the world with his style and elegance"", and was the first cricketer to play 100 Test matches, celebrating the occasion with 104 against Australia in 1968. In all he played 114 Tests, making 7,624 runs at an average of 44.06, overtaking Wally Hammond as the most prolific Test batsman, and taking 120 catches as a fielder, breaking another"
"Geoff Pullar Geoffrey Pullar (1 August 1935 – 25 December 2014) was an English cricketer, who played for Lancashire and Gloucestershire and in 28 Tests for England. His affectionate nickname was 'Noddy', not, as often said, because, once he was out, he was known to sleep often in the dressing room, but because he was once discovered watching the children's programme there. He was, in any case, a skilled batsman, rarely lifting the ball off the surface while driving elegantly and adept at accumulating by flicking the ball off his toes towards fine leg. Preferring to play off the front"
"Richard Bernard (cricketer) John Richard Bernard (7 December 1938 – 23 February 1998) was an English cricketer. He played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire between 1956 and 1961 and for Cambridge University between 1958 and 1960. His final first-class match was in 1964. A hard-hitting middle-order batsman and medium-pace bowler, Richard Bernard was a promising cricketer at Clifton College. He went up to St John's College, Cambridge, and had his longest and most successful first-class season in 1959, when he played 24 matches for Cambridge University and Gloucestershire, scoring 822 runs at an average of 22.83 and taking 25 rather expensive"
"slip fielders ever. Hammond was an effective fast-medium pace bowler and contemporaries believed that if he had been less reluctant to bowl, he could have achieved even more with the ball than he did. In a Test career spanning 85 matches, he scored 7,249 runs and took 83 wickets. Hammond captained England in 20 of those Tests, winning four, losing three, and drawing 13. His career aggregate of runs was the highest in Test cricket until surpassed by Colin Cowdrey in 1970; his total of 22 Test centuries remained an English record until Alastair Cook surpassed it in December 2012."